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• Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents.
  And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill....
• A possum must be himself, and being himself he is honest. -- Walt Kelly
• He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertake
  for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. -- Alexander Pope...
• FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests.
  It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children....
• Men must either be caressed or annihilated. They will revenge themselves for small injuries, but they can't do so for great ones.
  The harm the leader does must be such that he need not fear revenge. -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are.
  In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein....
• He that scattereth thorns must not go barefoot. -- Thomas Fuller, English physician and write
• If every copy is an original and every original is a copy then what is real?